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Diabetes Mellitus - Insights and Perspectives
Edited by Oluwafemi O. Oguntibeju, ISBN 978-953-51-0939-6, 346 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published January 23, 2013 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/3038
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The fundamental treatment and management goals in diabetes mellitus are to control and normalize blood glucose levels and to prevent diabetic complications. It also includes maintaining normal growth and development and normal body weight. Proper diet, regular exercise, weight control and different therapeutic agents are the mainstays of diabetic care and management. Weight reduction and exercise have been shown to improve tissue sensitivity to insulin and allow its proper use by target tissues. It is obvious that medical management and goals of therapy for diabetes mellitus have changed since the publication of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial in 1993. Recent studies have shown that the risk of developing retinopathy can decrease by 76% in properly managed diabetic patients when compared to control group and that clinical and laboratory signs and symptoms of nephropathy and neuropathy can also decrease by 54 to 60%. Modern approaches to the management of diabetes mellitus embrace holistic options and this book addressed various approaches in the management of diabetes mellitus.

Contents
Chapter 1 - The Utility of Vitamins in the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications: A Public Health Perspective - by Alaa Badawi, Bibiana Garcia-Bailo, Paul Arora, Mohammed H. Al Thani, Eman Sadoun, Mamdouh Farid and Ahmed El-Sohemy
Chapter 2 - Aldose Reductase Inhibitors as Potential Therapeutic Drugs of Diabetic Complications - by Changjin Zhu
Chapter 3 - Behavioral Problems and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Self and Parent Reports - by Nienke M. Maas- van Schaaijk, Angelique B.C. Roeleveld -Versteegh, Roelof R.J. Odink and Anneloes L. van Baar
Chapter 4 - GPR119 Agonists: A Novel Strategy for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment - by Xiaoyun Zhu, Wenglong Huang and Hai Qian
Chapter 5 - The Role of Nutrition in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus - by Olabiyi Folorunso and Oluwafemi Oguntibeju
Chapter 6 - Can Lifestyle Factors of Diabetes Mellitus Patients Affect Their Fertility? - by Guillaume Aboua, Oluwafemi O. Oguntibeju and Stefan S. du Plessis
Chapter 7 - The Role of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Human Health and Disease Prevention - by O. O. Oguntibeju, E. J. Truter and A. J. Esterhuyse
Chapter 8 - Diabetes Mellitus in Developing Countries and Case Series - by Omiepirisa Yvonne Buowari
Chapter 9 - Principles of Exercise and Its Role in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus - by Yıldırım Çınar, Hakan Demirci and Ilhan Satman
Chapter 10 - Hyperglycemia and Diabetes in Myocardial Infarction - by Marco A. López Hernández
Chapter 11 - Physical Activity in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus - by N.A. Odunaiya and O.O. Oguntibeju
Chapter 12 - Copper, Zinc and Magnesium in Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Treated with Metformin - by Monica Daniela Dosa, Cecilia Ruxandra Adumitresi, Laurentiu Tony Hangan and Mihai Nechifor
Chapter 13 - Animal Models for Study of Diabetes Mellitus - by A. Lukačínová, B. Hubková, O. Rácz and F. Ništiar
Chapter 14 - Essentials of Diabetes Care in Family Practice - by Hakan Demirci, Ilhan Satman, Yıldırım Çınar and Nazan Bilgel
Chapter 15 - Spontaneous Diabetes Mellitus in Animals - by Emilia Ciobotaru
Chapter 16 - A New Behavioral Model (Health Belief Model Combined with Two Fear Models): Design, Evaluation and Path Analysis of the Role of Variables in Maintaining Behavior - by Alireza Shahab Jahanlou, Masoud Lotfizade and Nader Alishan Karami
Chapter 17 - Development of Improved Animal Models for the Study of Diabetes - by Emilia Ciobotaru